Timber

by Ralph W. Andrews

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ISBN 10: 0887400361 ISBN 13: 9780887400360

Published by West Chester, Pa. : Schiffer Pub., c1984., 1984

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ISBN 0887400361. Trade Paperback. Reprint edition. Very Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy with minor rubs to edges and corners of covers.

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Title

Timber

Publisher

West Chester, Pa. : Schiffer Pub., c1984.

Publication Date

1984

ISBN 10

0887400361

ISBN 13

9780887400360

Binding

Paperback

Edition

Later Edition

Condition

Very Good

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Has anyone today any conception of the grandeur, the extent, the million board feet a day production...the entire meaning of the forests of the Pacific Northwest-the "Big Woods"? The photographs alone in this absorbing book will instantly transport the reader into this former world. Here was the greatest stand of Douglas fir timber in existence and here was labor for the Poles, Finns, Swedes and Norskies lured out of the Midwest to convert the mammoth trees into the lumber that helped build the West Coast cities. Ralph Andrews presents a fascinating subject-the hope, courage and tragedy in the lives of the men and women who opened up the dense native forests or as the loggers said "brought daylight into the swamp," and converted the trees into the lumber which built the West Coast cities. Here are many nostalgic scenes showing high climbers, fallers balanced on high springboards, yokes of oxen and up to eight spans of horses dragging logs on skidroad, yokes of oxen and up to eight spans of horses dragging logs on skidroads to flumes, rivers and salt water, early donkey engines, railroads on steep grades, logging camps as well as devastating fires. Andrews' style of writing is graphic and spirited with strong emphasis on human interest.

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Ralph Andrews has written many books to document American Northwest logging and its people. He lives in Seattle.

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